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No. 31,493. Patented Feb. 19, 1861.

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JONATHAN R. SUPPLEE, OF BRIDGEPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

RADIATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,493, dated February 19, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. R. SUPPLEE, of Bridgeport, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Mode of Heating Rooms with the Waste Heat of a Cooking-Range; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in having a drum made of sheet or cast iron or its equivalent with conical pipes running through it from bottom to top open at both ends to allow the air to pass up through said drum together with the receiving and discharge pipes. The sides and ends projecting a sufficient distance below the bottom of the drum so as to allow an air chamber between the bottom of the drum and the top of the range, in combination with the gas and smoke pipe or fines of a cooking range said flues being constructed in such a manner as to unite with the receiving pipe of the drum or be thrown direct into the chimney at pleasure. The whole being built up with the range within the breast of the chimney, thereby saving the heat that usually was lostby passing up the chimney to warm the rooms over the range.

Figure 1, front view; Fig. 2, back view; Fig. 3, bottom drum.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is a drum.

B. B. are several conical air pipes running through the drum A, the openings into the pipes at the under side of the drum as seen in Fig. 3 are made small next the cold air flue, and increase in size the farther they are from it. C is the receiving pipe, D the discharge pipe inserted at or near the bottom of the drum through which the gas and smoke pass from the drum to the chimney.

E is the extension of the sides and end of the drum beneath the bottom so as to form a supply air chamber level with the bottom of the drum and the same width as the drum is a plate to cover over the cold air flue, extending from the drum to the jamb of the chimney to prevent the cold air pass ing up the end and into the flue direct, the extension E being provided with openings similar to the bottom of the conical pipes B as shown in Fig. 3 increasing in size the farther from the cold air flue so as to prevent a direct current of cold air from passing up through the nearest pipes and the sides near the cold air flue by equalizing the cold air through all the pipes and all around the sides and end of the drum so that all the air must become heated before it can leave the drum to be taken to the rooms above.

F is the flue through which the cold air is admitted which may be taken from the cellar by means of a fine in the wall or from out the kitchen.

, G is the dust flue.

I-I is the flue direct off the fire.

I is the oven flue, or flue through which the gas and flame is carried around the oven, being constructed so the heat can be taken into the drum (or' in summer time when heat is not wanted) direct into the chimney through the flue J.

K is the chimney flue.

L is a range.

M is the mantle, which either runs back over the fiues or a separate plate is put on a level with the mantle, from the wall in which the dampers are placed to the back wall, sufficient distance up from the dam pers; to form a horizontal flue to collect the direct and oven flue into the drum at the pipe C, said pipe 0 fitting tight into the opening through the mantle or the substituted iron plate, to prevent the gas and smoke from ascending into the air chamber, which is formed by the extended sides and end of the drum resting upon the mantle or substituted iron plate.

0, O, are the partitions between the iiues.

P is the damper which opens the oven flue direct into the chimney.

Q, is the damper which opens the oven flue into the horizontal flue thence into the drum at the pipe C, so that the gas and heat can be taken after it leaves the oven into the drum, by which means most of the 'front of the drum is supplied with a door large enough to take the drum out conveniently, to clean. A space is left or built around the sides and ends of the drum to collect the heat that is made by said side and ends Which heat naturally ascends and unites with the heat from the pipes on the top of the drum.

In Fig. 24, the back is left out of the drum so the internal construction can be seen.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Having the openings (at the underside of the drum A) of the conical or straight pipes B. B. made larger in proportion to the distance from the cold air flue F., also similar openings around the sides and ends of the drum, thereby equalizing the draft through 15 all the heating surface, substantially as described.

JONATHAN R. SUPPLEE.

lVitnesses G. R. Fox,

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